Great fucking tweets!!!
The minute someone says ‘slash red tape’ you know they’re a moron or a cunt.
There is no option c.
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I see ‘red tape’ as a more politically palatable phase for ‘regulations essential to keeping you and your family safe and healthy’
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Honest question
Do people think Brexit will continue to unravel? I mean we’re currently in the middle of a pretty big shock to the system, it’s just whether more people start to understand the reality of it and whether they accept it or turn against it.
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haven’t read the article yet, but it sounds like an odd but interesting position.
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Yes, I very much approve of the principle but which is the appropriate arbiter?
It seems to me that the Supreme Court should determine if something amounts to genocide under UK law (with reliance on reliable international reporting presented by the Council of Europe (for example)) but it should be for the democratically accountable Parliament (note, not government) to determine whether to suspend a trade agreement in response.
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Another point is this is already loosely provided for under the system of economic sanction. But I accept this would rank it up considerably, and render any ‘sanction’ outside the discretion of the Executive. Perhaps this is the objective.
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I know my dad has had to get used to the idea that the world hasn’t ended and that nothing in his life (shopping, health etc) has changed. Odd as he was adamant that there’s be no fresh veg in the supermarkets and the power would go off.
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It’s not even three weeks yet. Give it time.
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Obviously doesn’t live here
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We’re still in the grace period. That could change as that ends. Veg gets 3 months, meat stuffs gets 6 months I think
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It appears the first wave of effects are really all going to be transport costs. Haulage groups are reporting industrial importers are now preferring to send empty trucks back across the border rather than risk delays in both directions. That probably is not a significant percentage of all transport, but should start to have a price effect on haulage fairly quickly.
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From a consumer perspective that is not good news at all. That price will soon be pushed down the line, depending on how widespread that becomes.
I could easily see lorries doing a UK drop off before collecting from France or similar.
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Not sure how large that cost will really be once you get down to the consumer level - but it will be there.
To December, most haulage firms were trying to run loaded capacity both ways, obviously enough. The market is segmenting, with some clients willing to pay a premium to ensure reliability - the premium being the price of running an empty load back the other way. Nissan was cited as an example.
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Leaving the EU was always going to present disruption, the question was to what degree and how quickly things would take to settle. Efta/EEA looking pretty good right now though.
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I wonder do they propose to go back as far as the Irish famine, maybe ban trade deals with themselves
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I’m guessing not.
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Yes, but even allowing for the current trade agreement there was an opportunity for it to have created far less disruption than it appears to be causing through open and clearer messaging and proper use of transition periods.
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